An important part of any educational curriculum in the digital age is the discussion of privacy, or lack thereof. The concept of a digital footprint is critical to discuss with students, especially if you plan to incorporate social media into your lessons.

Whenever I think about privacy and the Internet, the statement used by police comes into my head: “Everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.” For our purposes this phrase might be changed to something more like “everything you say can be used against you by anyone using the Internet.”